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[Model][Spec Decode] MiMo-V2.5-Pro-FP4 DFlash speculative decoding + AL fix - #45343

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Draft / reference artifact. Validated working (see below) but not ready-for-review: overlaps #45200 (base-model files) and carries env-gated debug. Opened to share the working config + root-cause + measured AL.

Summary

Adds MiMo-V2.5-Pro-FP4 DFlash speculative decoding support and fixes an acceptance-length (AL) collapse.

Builds on the MiMo DFlash serving work (#45181) and base-model TP-sharding / FP4-MoE fixes (#45200). With those alone, DFlash produced 0% draft acceptance (mean accept length = 1.0) on the v0.22.1 runtime: that image predates the num-blocks-first KV layout (#42095), so the draft read its KV cache through the wrong layout and every drafted token was rejected. The target stayed correct (KV intact), disguising it as a draft-quality problem.

On a runtime that includes #42095 (build on a base at/after 3d300aecb), two stale APIs blocked load:

  • mxfp4.pyMiMoV2Mxfp4Config.get_quant_method checked isinstance(layer, FusedMoE); the fused-MoE refactor made FusedMoE a factory function and the routed-expert module a RoutedExperts. TypeError at load.
  • fp8.py — restores a per-name get_cache_scale() shim; mimo_v2.load_weights still calls the per-weight form (upstream renamed it get_cache_scale_mapper). AttributeError at weight load.

Also: num_speculative_tokens must equal DFlash block_size - 1.

A later commit ports the post-final-norm last-aux-feature semantics from local-inference-lab/vllm (gated by VLLM_DFLASH_PRENORM_LAST_AUX); see Notes.

Validation (8×B200 TP8, built on a #42095-inclusive base, runai_streamer load from NFS)

Mean accept length by task type (temp 0), vs local-inference-lab/vllm reference:

Task This branch local-inference-lab
code 4.35 4.96
math 4.49 4.99
chat / long-context summarization (3085 tok) ~2.5 2.74 (chat)
short structured (count 1..20) 6.4–7.3
TP4 (math/reasoning) 3.38

Previously 0% at all configs. AL is task-type dependent (chat/long ≈ 2.5, code/math ≈ 4.4) and tracks the reference within ~0.5.

Notes for reviewers

  • #3 post-norm last-aux commit is neutral on this FLASH_ATTN path. A same-node A/B (VLLM_DFLASH_PRENORM_LAST_AUX on/off) showed no AL change beyond noise — this branch already started above the reference's pre-fix ~2.0 (mask-embedding handled via [Spec Decode] Support mixed KV page sizes for DFlash #45181/Benjamin's qwen3_dflash). Kept because it matches reference semantics and is gated.
  • The reference's Triton-specific fixes (non-causal+SWA block masking, SWA tile-pruning, b12x MXFP4 routing) are not ported — this branch uses FLASH_ATTN, which handles non-causal+window, and MiMoV2Mxfp4MoEMethod.
  • Carries its own copy of base-model fixes (fused-QKV TP sharding incl. TP≠8, FP4 MoE), overlapping [Models] Fix MiMo v2.x QKV TP sharding + FP4 support #45200 on mimo_v2.py/fp8.py — needs reconciling (supersede or rebase) before merge.
  • Env-gated DFLASH_*_DEBUG logging should be stripped before an upstream PR.

How to run

Build from a #42095-inclusive base; serve with --load-format runai_streamer (loads directly from NFS, no local staging) and --speculative-config '{"method":"dflash", ..., "num_speculative_tokens": <block_size-1>}'.

pst2154 and others added 3 commits June 10, 2026 12:18
Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <codex@openai.com>

Signed-off-by: Alex Steiner <asteiner@nvidia.com>
…oe/fp8 APIs

MiMo-V2.5-Pro-FP4 DFlash speculative decoding produced 0% draft acceptance
(mean acceptance length = 1.0) whenever the runtime predated the
num-blocks-first KV layout (vllm-project#42095): the draft read its KV cache through the
wrong layout, so every drafted token was rejected. The target stayed correct
(its KV was intact), which masked the issue as a draft-quality problem.

On a runtime that includes vllm-project#42095, two stale APIs in the MiMo support blocked
loading:

- mxfp4.py: MiMoV2Mxfp4Config.get_quant_method checked isinstance(layer,
  FusedMoE), but the fused-MoE refactor turned FusedMoE into a factory
  function returning a MoERunner; the routed-expert module is now a
  RoutedExperts (matching the parent Mxfp4Config branch). Raised TypeError at
  model load.
- fp8.py: restore a per-name get_cache_scale() shim. mimo_v2.load_weights
  still calls the per-weight form, which upstream renamed to
  get_cache_scale_mapper. Raised AttributeError at weight load.

Also note: num_speculative_tokens must equal dflash block_size - 1.

Validated on 8xB200 TP8 (built on base 3d300ae which includes vllm-project#42095):
- short prompt: mean acceptance length 5.41, 63% draft acceptance
- long prompt (3085 tokens, > SWA window): mean acceptance length ~2.3,
  ~20% acceptance, coherent output
Previously 0% at all lengths.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@mergify mergify Bot added qwen Related to Qwen models speculative-decoding v1 labels Jun 12, 2026
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pst2154 marked this pull request as draft June 12, 2026 02:10
Port of local-inference-lab/vllm divergence vllm-project#3: the DFlash reference uses
HF output_hidden_states, where the entry after the final target layer is the
POST-final-norm hidden state (all earlier entries are raw residual-stream
values). MiMoV2Model captured the last aux feature pre-norm, degrading draft
acceptance (long/hard-prompt mean accept length stuck ~2.0-2.3 vs official
3.18-6.30).

Skip the last layer's pre-norm residual capture and append the normed hidden
state after self.norm when the final layer id is an aux layer. Gated by
VLLM_DFLASH_PRENORM_LAST_AUX=1 for A/B testing.

On-node AL re-measure pending (node was unreachable at commit time).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This pull request has merge conflicts that must be resolved before it can be
merged. Please rebase the PR, @pst2154.

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